The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-21

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tain to seaboard. The farmers are bad
crowd when they get started, aud l tel
you to ponder well before you pass this
bill"
Mr.. Haskell replied. He said tina, the
Mississippi Agricultural College b&d cost
0,0C0 year to maintain it. No county
in this Stale can afford to donate anything
but the baldest nucleus for separate col
lege, while for the one proposed We have
the necessary buildings. In seply to DR.,
Pope'S question, rs it wise IN the face OF
the clamor of the people?' be would ask,
Is it wise, IN the face of the clamor for
economy and relief from taxation, 10 saddle
upon the people the uutold expense Of an
experiment which bus been tried elsewhere
and proved to to be failure? This farm
ers OF this State were IS per cent. Of the
population, and if they wanted an agcicul-
tural college they could easily get it. He
showed from the catalogue of the Mlssls-
sippi College that agriculture was taught
only nine months in the whole course of
three Years, horticulture three months, and
chemistry five mouths The measure was
an honest effort to give the farmers what
is theirs. If there was no other reason
against the separate agricultural college, it
was sufficient that it would raise wal! Of
separation between the different proies-
sions and callings and create artificial dis
tinctions between the sons Of common
mother, which could but work injury to
the beS: interests of all the people.
Mr.. II. F. Wilson supported the bill in
telling speech. He thought the principal
against the separate Agricultural
College had bcen presented by the gentle
man from Rchland when he so graphically
showed the effects of such q system in Sepa-
rating the people Of the State into ranks
and colleges. The CRY fer separate col
lege had DO. come up from the farmers Of
the State When it did, he would be pre-
pared to give heed to it; until then, he
would oppose it. He could not exactly see
the success Of Sys;em which taught young
men to raise cotton at g loss of 500 per
bale as he showed had been done il ths
College.
Mr.. Davenport said that hcwas compsra-
lively an uneducatcd man. He was glad
be had 10 more Of It SIS il would make MIN
o bigger fool than he was. OF all fools,
said he, the educated fool is the biggest.
Scientific farming! Gracious alive. Show
me man who has ever made q farmer by
reading books and III give So" (This
statement was greeted bye hurricane OF
lsughter.) The proper way to make
farmer was to put him n the field. TO the
intense amusement of his hearers he re-
peate5 his experience in scientific farming
as derived from following the Instructions
found in newspaper.
Mr.. Thomas, of R;chlanl, said that, il
bis opinion, higher scheme OF education
had never been projected in South Carolina.
Its conception Involved the highest States
as well as the scholastic genius.
Ii the South Carcl;pa Military Academy
we have unique school OF military and
practical discipline; II Clafir College We
have sc admirable Institution for tue col
ored men au6 women OF South Carolina;
ia the South Carolina University We would
have five d;s-i0c3 schools providing for
very class il tie State. He believed that
he cal! lor a seperate college cane from
minority, representing not one tentl: OF The
farmers of the State. That minority rad
It's rights. They were good and true zen,
but be did not think it wes wise 20 establish
The sepers:e college. 1t was too expensive
in view CT the condition OF the State, aud il
we had nii.ious to spend it would nos be
wise. Its tendency was to place the farmer
on q lower plane rather than to elevate him
to dwarf his inteliec: and repress his as
pirations under q partial culture. They
should have the broad basis of general
education. In the present scheme there
was all the agricultural interests could de-
mand and it was freighted with solid and
lasting good to the State. He believed that
the new University was the system de-
manded by the people of the State, and he
hoped that the tribunes Of the people would
rise to the height of the grand conception
of the bill before them, and by passing 1t
raise monument to the wisdom of the
Trustees and the craftsmanship of this
body, which shall endure to the blessing Of
the future generations of our people, and
in the promotion of their unity and pros
perity.
Mr.. Padgett, of Colleton, moved to table
Slr. Keitt's motion. DR.. Pope called for
the yeas and nays. The result was-yeas,
50: nays, 81.
Mr.. Blackwell moved the previous ques-
ton, which was ordered, and the bill
passed its second residing by SO to "a.
When the Senate bill to amend Chap
ter KIP. OF the General Statutes entitled
'sOf the University of South Carolina, :"
(Which was, in effect, to conform the
Statutes to the provisions Of the bill to
reorganize the University, which passed
the House on Tuesday night came up
for q second reading. DR.. Pope moved
to recomnit, which failed.
Mr.. Ansel endeavored to get in his
amenomentSequuing the tuition fees to
be paid into the State treasury instead
of the treasurer of the University, which
was rejected on Tuesday, but the amend
ment was defeated by vote of 65 to 49,.
An amendment proposed By the COM
mittee was adopted, providing for the
control OF the fund provided by the
grant of Congress for Agricultural and
Mechanical Colleges, by the Trustees OF
the University.
Other verbal amendments were made,
and the bill was ordered to g third read
ing.
TIE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
The bill to reorganize the Department
of Agriculture came back to the House,
with the Senate amendments ss en-
bodied In Senator Younans's substitute.
The usual process is either to concur or
TO refuse 70 concur in amendments, put
in this case, as the suggestion OF Mr.:
Tindal, of Clarendon, who had the bill
in charge, the debate was adjourned and
the Senate amendments were ordered to